proneness

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They surveyed more than 400 people and asked them to complete multiple measures assessing various levels of obsessive-compulsive behavior, fear of missing out, inhibitory anxiety, boredom proneness and PSU.

From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2024

More recent research has explored boredom as an inherent trait — known as boredom proneness — which has a whole host of negative associations.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2021

We should buck commercial considerations to the extent that we can and give the candidates’ competing visions of government as much scrutiny as their competing talents for quips or proneness to gaffes.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2019

Fitness remains a concern for the 34-year-old, with his combative style hardly conducive to a player of such injury proneness.

From The Guardian • Apr. 18, 2016

Conscious as both Adams and Clay doubtless were of their own rectitude, they did not sufficiently appreciate the proneness of the masses to believe in the corruption of their superiors.

From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by Burgess, John William